249297 - Problem with new search feature

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 98141

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Tom Graham]

With the newly introduced search bar feature
(http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=244325) there is a slight problem
with exactly what is searched. 

Say you have an image file, or exe attached to a message. With the new search
feature, you could type in a seemingly random stream of letters (e.g.
ZAAYIoQAaJLkA ) yet it would find a result (for me) because that combination is
found in the source of an attached file. This is widely reproducable; find an an
exe attachment or image attachment; view the message source ( ctrl + u ); find
the code for the attachment and then do a search for a snip of it. Result :
message with the attachment.

Although this is a somewhat extreme example, it does highlight a problem; when
tb is searching "message body" it needs to ignore attachments in messages.

TB UA String : version 0.7+ (20040629)

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 98141 ***